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Iran hangs child bride for murdering husband despite UK pressure

Iran has hanged a woman convicted of murdering her husband, whom she married while still a child, defying British pressure for her to be pardoned.

Samira Sabzian, who had been in prison for the past decade, was executed at dawn on Wednesday in Ghezel Hesar prison in the Tehran satellite city of Karaj, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) group said.

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